The callous murder of Manuel Fernandez, whose dismembered body was found inside a barrel in Dangriga on Sunday this week, has raised the ire and concern among Dangriga residents. Today Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, told the media that the homicide was the result of
Police continue to investigate the shooting of Mary Flowers. Flowers was shot on Santa Barbara Street in the Lake Independence area of Belize City on Tuesday night. Flowers was coming out of the residence of her former partner when shots rang out and she realised
The Belize Defence Force (B.D.F.) continues to investigate allegations of bribery among soldiers. That investigation was launched after this station produced an investigative piece earlier this month. In that piece, Digital Editor Hipolito Novelo revealed allegations that B.D.F. soldiers stationed at the Machakilha Conservation Post
Reports that soldiers are being offered bribes as low as chicken sparked public debate about the challenging conditions faced by those patrolling Belize's remote borders. When we asked the Prime Minister about it, he said that such incidents can occur anywhere. Given that entry-level soldiers
In our investigation, we revealed that on September seventh, B.D.F. troops apprehended Guatemalan loggers operating illegally in the Columbia River Forest Reserve. However, their position was quickly compromised when over ten armed Guatemalans surrounded them. Communication with Fairweather Camp was lost, gunshots were fired, and
A family from San Ignacio Town is lucky that their house did not collapse when recent rains caused a culvert to break next to their yard, pulling down the cement fence that held the ground together and creating a huge hole next to a house.
Some of us either work for a company or we own one and employ others to work for us. Others simply work for themselves, surviving off a craft, service or talent. But there are those who do very humbling jobs, the kinds that put our
This morning, two conflicting press releases emerged under the United Democratic Party (U.D.P.) banner, one from Moses "Shyne" Barrow and the other from Tracy Taegar-Panton. Both figures rejected each other’s involvement in the party. Barrow insisted that Sunday’s convention was illegitimate and not officially linked
On Sunday, the police were called out to the U.D.P. headquarters on Youth for the Future Drive when U.D.P. loyalist Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett allegedly hurled threats at the Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne Barrow. The locks were reportedly changed on all the doors
Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, has laid the matter at the feet of the police, saying that he feels that even if he filed a report against Audinett, he feels that it would be an exercise in futility since the police had not
